STANDING TALL.
n.p. n.p., n.d. folio. broadside. Limited to 41 signed and numbered copies by the artist, Tim Solliday. Reproduced and printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press. READ MORE about STANDING TALL
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 134820
n.p. n.p., n.d. folio. broadside. Limited to 41 signed and numbered copies by the artist, Tim Solliday. Reproduced and printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press. READ MORE about STANDING TALL
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 134820
(Buffalo, NY: P22 Type Foundry, 2013). 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Limited to 1500 copies. No. 6 in a series of Michael Stickley's P22 Type Foundry type specimen books. READ MORE about STICKLEY OPTICAL FAMILY: FOUR OPTICAL SIZES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129191
(Newark, DE): Lead Graffiti, (2016). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 115 numbered copies. Number 3 in the publisher's Moments Carved in Paper series. Advertising card laid in. A fine copy. Preface. A description of three grading systems Ray Nichols used during his over thirty years of design teaching in the Visual Communications program at the University of Delaware. Printed via letterpress in two colors and blind debossing on Somerset Textured White 300..... READ MORE about SWITCHING ON: GRADING AS A TEXTBOOK
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129252
Marcham: Alembic Press, 2000. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 19, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 120 numbered copies. A reprint of a chapter from Robert Gibbings' book "Till I End my Song," along with his original wood engraving. Included is an introduction describing how Gibbings came to be in Marcham, a history of the Pointer family and Simon Brett's engraving of one of Bill Pointer's benches, who to this day still..... READ MORE about A TALE OF TWO BENCHES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 60842
N.P. The Whittington Press, (2011). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, slipcase, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (iv), 9, (3) pages. Limited to 100 copies, signed by John Randle on colophon. Essays written in tribute to Mavis Lowndes (1912-2008). Frontispiece tipped-in portrait of Lowndes. READ MORE about A TASTE FOR FRIENDSHIP
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 122929
(Decorah, IA): Solmentes Press, 2014. oblong 8vo. printed cloth, decorated gilt-stamped endpapers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, slipcase. 21, (3) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Hand printed from original woodblocks. The transcript of a conversation with a taxi driver travelling between terminals at Heathrow Airport, London. Woodcut illustrations based on Indian Kolam design. READ MORE about TAXI DRIVER CURRY
Price: $475.00 Order nr. 129182
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2012. 6.75 x 10.25 inches. paperback. 43 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition that ran from July 11-September 22, 2012 at the Center for Book Arts and from September 28-November 4, 2012 at Moravian College. The exhibition focuses on how artists used personal writings such as their journals, notebooks, diaries, lists, and tweets as source material to create visually and powerfully engaging artwork. It is divided into three categories: graphic..... READ MORE about TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL: DIARISTIC TENDENCIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 117973
(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, University of Toronto Library, 1997). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages. Foreword by Richard Landon, acknowledgments, introduction, biographical sketch of Drake, bibliography. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about TENDING THE YOUNG FROM THE T.G.H. DRAKE COLLECTION ON THE HISTORY OF PÆDIATRICS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 127017
Evanston, IL: Hesterberg Press, 2008. large 8vo. cloth. (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii). The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and..... READ MORE about THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 101433
London: Crafts Council and Colin Banks, 1994. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (38) pages of text. Meant to accompany an exhibition devoted to the private press. Bumped corner. Lacking the photographs. Includes histories of the press and listings of the works exhibited. Introduction by Colin Banks. READ MORE about TRUE TO TYPE, INTRODUCING LETTERPRESS PRINTING & THE WORKS OF SMALL PRESSES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 41167
N.P. Clinker Press, The, 2021. 8vo. single sheet, folded. A rather humerous joke of "Two unrelated Italic typefaces entered a ragged bar..." written, designed, and printed in two colors by Andre Chaves at The Clinker Press for the N.W. Letterpress Network. A wood engraving by Chaves is featured on the front. READ MORE about TWO TYPES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137592
New York: The Typophiles, 1999. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 17, (5) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series - Number 15. Printed at the Woodside Press in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Preface by Theo Rehak giving a history of the publishing program, followed by a tribute to Morris Gelfand. With a wood engraving by John DePol on the title page. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press. READ MORE about THE TYPOPHILES PUBLISHING PROGRAM
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 61926
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2011. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback. 25 pages. Catalogue of the Center for Book Arts 2011 Artist Members Exhibition (July 6-September 10, 2011). The exhibition focuses on how the art of photography, the photographic process, and related media such as video stills are used to convey content, form, text, and image within a broader context of book arts practices. It features artwork from both the Center for Book Arts..... READ MORE about THE UN(FRAMED) PHOTOGRAPH
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 117972
(Tualatin, OR): The Clinker Press, 2019. broadside (12 by 9 inches). An anonymous poem printed for the Humes and Duniway Society on the occasion of its White Elaphant. READ MORE about Untitled poem
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 134496
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, n.d. oblong folio. broadside. Designed and privately printed by Andre Chaves of The Clinker Press for The Ruskin Club. Hand-set on a ludlow printer. Features a poem by James Merrill. READ MORE about AN UPWARD LOOK - A DOWNWARD LOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134779
New York: American Printing History Association, 2006. 8vo. contributions loosely inserted in cloth clamshell box, paper spine label. Limited to 225 copies.Various typographic arrangements of seventeen poems, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the printers. Contributors include Mindy Beloff, Robin Price, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Ed Colker, Ron Gordon, David Pankow, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, Michael Peich, Gaylord Schanilec..... READ MORE about VERSE INTO TYPE: THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 97456
Washington: Library of Congress, 1991. tall 8vo. green cloth, paper spine label. xxxv, 427, (3) pages. First edition. With an introduction by James H. Billington, preface by Larry E. Sullivan and an essay on Rosenwald by William Matheson. The Rosenwald Collection is the single largest gathering of rare books at the Library of Congress and represents one of the finest collections of books formed by any individual. The collection focuses on the Western European and..... READ MORE about VISION OF A COLLECTOR, THE LESSING J. ROSENWALD COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 44082
Introduced by Ian Rogerson.
(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, United Kingdom): Fleece Press, 2018. oblong 12mo. quarter cloth over Claire Maziarczyk pastepaper over boards, paper spine label. 64 pages. Introduced by Ian Rogerson. Limited to 250 copies. A fine copy. Bound by the Fine Book Bindery. From the artist's website: "Vivien Gribble (1888-1932) engraved in an idiosyncratic, black-line style which is easily recognized but hard to emulate. She was one of the earliest of the artist-engravers, trained by Noel Rooke, and..... READ MORE about VIVIEN GRIBBLE: TWENTY WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 139532
Introduced by Ian Rogerson.
(Upper Denby, Huddersfield, United Kingdom): Fleece Press, 2018. oblong 12mo. quarter cloth over Claire Maziarczyk pastepaper over boards, paper spine label. 64 pages. Introduced by Ian Rogerson. Limited to 250 copies. A fine copy. Bound by the Fine Book Bindery. From the artist's website: "Vivien Gribble (1888-1932) engraved in an idiosyncratic, black-line style which is easily recognized but hard to emulate. She was one of the earliest of the artist-engravers, trained by Noel Rooke, and..... READ MORE about VIVIEN GRIBBLE: TWENTY WOOD ENGRAVINGS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 139540
(Toronto, Canada): Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room, University of Toronto, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 139+(1) pages. Table of contents, introduction by library director Richard Landon. Essays by Marie Elena Korey, Yannick Portebois, Dorothy E. Speirs, and Richard Landon. Appendix, listing of items in the exhibition. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text along with a section in color. READ MORE about VIZETELLY & COMPAN(IES), A COMPLEX TALE OF VICTORIAN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 127000
2011. small 4to. cloth portfolio binding, loose sheets. 32 pages. First edition and limited to 100 copies. In a companion piece, following Gathering, the 50th anniversary edition with poetry in 2010, Voices to Share is a portfolio of works of nine texts from French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Yiddish, and Native American poets. Works by Char, Celan, Gaspar, Jabes, Neruda, Pane, Hyon-Jong, Sutzkever, and Wintu. This piece is offered as an expression of esteem and..... READ MORE about VOICES TO SHARE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 106755
New York: New York Public Library, 1953. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. Biographical introduction followed by a list of books, letters and manuscripts by and about Whitman. Some annotations. Covers faded. READ MORE about WALT WHITMAN, THE OSCAR LION COLLECTION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 25485
(Washington D.C.): Hand Papermaking, 2001. 4to. booklet handsewn in stiff paper wrapper, loose sheet each in a protective folder, all housed in a custom-made clamshell box which is in the original cardboard box. (iv), 42+(2) pages. Limited to an edition of 150 copies. This is the fifth portfolio in the ongoing series of portfolios of handmade papers. The juried collection features seventeen watermarked sheets of handmade paper using many techniques. Five were formed on historic..... READ MORE about WATERMARKS IN HANDMADE PAPER: MODERN AND HISTORIC
Price: $495.00 save 50% $247.50 Order nr. 93004
n.p. (but Mission, B.C., Canada): Barbarian Press, 2022. 8vo (9 by 6 inches, 227 x 152 mm). single leaf. Printed in pale blue and black. Text comprising excerpts from the Tom Phillips' Summary Treatise on the Nature of Ornament set in black within a hand-set border in pale blue made up of 12pt Monotype ornaments 280 (Giolito's Venetian arabesque) and 468/469 (Fournier's leaf). Colophon in Van Dijck italic below border. Designed to be printed by..... READ MORE about A WAYZGOOSE BAGATELLE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139235
The 'Wayzgoose' Explained, with Historical Notes on Cope's Albion, and Sherwin & Cope's Imperial, Presses.
(Mission, B.C., Canada): Barbarian Press, 2022. 8vo. blue hand-made paper wrappers, sewn binding. 7, (1) pages. The 'Wayzgoose' Explained, with Historical Notes on Cope's Albion, and Sherwin & Cope's Imperial, Presses. Originall published in 1984, this second edition was published in 2022. A fine copy. Designed and written by Crispin Elsted and Lea Sanchez Milde. The headpiece, commissioned in 1984 from Sarah Chamberlain, is printed from the wood, the press images from magnesium blocks. The..... READ MORE about WAYZGOOSE PAMPHLETS: WAYZGOOSE PAMPHLET NUMBER ONE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 138299